Monday, October 27, 2008

Conceived in 2004, worked on, abandoned, reignited, trashed, reconstructed,abandoned again, regurgitated...and now, complete. A record that, musically,would've been a Brian Grainger album, but arrived at a time when I wasn'tquite ready to release works under my own name yet. Having been a work inprogress for so long, the amount of material I was faced with shaping intothis final product was overwhelming! So, having a fondness for thelong-form, I opted to do a double CD set with this. Yes, I know, right onthe heels of my collaborative double-album with Jhonn-Paul, but the fact isthat this record has been in the waiting line for a lot longer, and mycollaborative release was a totally improvised, spur-of-the-moment beast. IfI haven't scared you away with this daunting set yet, it might come withsome surprise that this project is and has been the pinnacle of myfascination with all manner of dark and occult things. EVPs, videogames likeSilent Hill, old library books about haunted houses, getting scared andhearing things at my Dad's house in the country, Stephen King, "Tales FromThe Darkside", the original 60's run of "The Outer Limits", Murnau's 1922silent-film "Nosferatu"...all thrown together with musical reference pointslike Aube, Merzbow, Masonna, Lustmord, Pocahaunted and that creep-out middlepart of Pink Floyd's "Echoes". In short, I wanted to create the creepiest,most convincing haunted atmosphere I could, without seeming dated orcontrived. Hopefully, it worked, or at least I feel like it might have forme. Even after making this album myself, it still gives me shivers to listento late at night, alone, reading "The Road Virus Heads North", hearing EVERYSOUND in my house, and being so scared that I have to pull the sheets overmy head to sleep! Delivered (hopefully) to you on the best possible night ofthe year for that, Borley Rectory is a spooky ghost story from me to all ofyou this Halloween! Limited to only 38 copies, which is a very short run, sothey may be gone within the week, but I want to keep this album's appearanceshort and sweet.

A pagan wedding song for all of you harvest celebrators here...dressed inpumpkin orange and as loud as a Scotsman who is burning alive in the bowelsof a giant wicker man (ha ha), this is something that'll carve itself intoyour head, Jack-O-Lantern style. And, if you listen carefully enough, underthe torrential waves of sound-destruction, you can scratch out the raw soundof Autumn, melted down and flattened into 50 three-inch discs.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Held up via several delayed processes in the last 2-3 months, this little sequel EP is finally here! For those of you who liked the first split with Foamek I did, here's another 21 minutes of funky ambient techno bliss. This time it's slightly more influenced by minimal and dub techno, with the exception of "Marsh Acid", which is probably the most dancefloor-friendly Coppice Halifax track ever recorded. Packaged up in cute soft-plastic mini-cases with pastel colored card inserts and a big blue Q stamped in ink! The first Lush Q release flew off the shelves so don't wait around too long if you want this, it's bound to disappear pretty fast!

A massive slab of bleak drone improvisations stretched across desolate landscapes, recorded almost completely live in the space of one exhausting week at Milieu Music HQ. Four extended pieces on two economically-friendly discs inside a stylish plastic-wallet case, this record is definitely going to appeal to fans of VCV, or albums like "Autumn Soil Feedback", "Porch" or "Porous Variations". Heavy, soft, near and distant all at once. Dense decaying music for nighttime headphone listening! Limited to 100 copies.

Imagine yourself walking blindfolded through a grove filled with cherry trees. It's a windy night, and the more you walk the closer you get to a calm, open clearing where muted bell-tones waft through the air, and the coolness of the temperature is just enough to be pleasant. Somewhere off in the distance, you can hear scrambled radio signals...maybe other people elsewhere in this cherry grove with you...you decide that it's not important, lay down in the tall grass and doze off listening to the sounds around you.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

So I'm going through my super-cluttered music room, which, in addition to being my creative studio space, it is also my makeshift office for label-related stuff. As you might imagine, I lose and find things all the time, and it's ALWAYS a mess. Given that, I've decided to lighten the load a little bit, and so I've dug out some old gems from my own personal stash to sell on Ebay. All items I'm listing are totally out of print and pretty scarce, so if any of you out there reading this would like to pick up some older records you may have missed out on, now is your chance! The titles I have listed so far are:

MILIEU / NIGHT CURRENTS / ORIGINAL U-COVER EDITION

MILIEU / A WARM WOODEN HOLLOW / INCLUDES BONUS 3"

COPPICE HALIFAX / 1983 / EED PROMO DISC

COPPICE HALIFAX / COPPICE HALIFAX / EED SWIVEL CASE

All of these items have been listed at or around the original price you would've paid for them if you bought them when they came out. They're all up for a weeklong auction and I will ship anywhere in the world. More items will probably be added in the next couple days so when that happens I'll update the list of available titles here.

You can visit my Ebay seller page by clicking HERE, and that should show you all the titles I am selling.

In closing, if anyone reading this is after any other older titles, please feel free to ask, because you never know what I might be able to find in my messy room here. Cheers!

About Me

I make a lot of music, I help run a couple great record labels, I'm happily married, I'm better at school than I used to be, I'm half English and half Italian, I really love food, I'm named after my father's favorite Rolling Stones.